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TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 30. Ig JJAiLI it wvi www Associated Press Telemats Review 1 941 Defense Era t- u-t. 0 .5 i -t I i I i M-1 'fc WS 4 mill mill I I itL.m an i 1 i a.n 1 VIM V1 4 I 4 I IVJCI W1 Unk cs-tonId iPr after civilian plant UinCUr twitched ever to defense, produclnf combat cart Ilk these 12-ton lifht tanks on parade at Berwick, Pa. went to BnstU, Britain. Army called for machines to speed up Its mechanisation; mass production methods rolled out fas masks, shells, tuns, planes.

Household washer Industry turned to gun mounts. It I AD(D TDIIC Wm that bcrn Dec 1 with Japnee atUckt en Pearl Harbor broucht LADllx I IXU V-C union pledfea to bar lUiket nntU victory, took the itlni out of anU-itrlk. lertslation of which Rep. Howard W. Smith's bill vu the flnt, and possibly eliminated "for the dur-1 Hon" further need for the type of presidential order which on June put the army in control (above) of strikebound North American Aircraft at Los Anreles.

Sidney Hillman of O.P.M. asked labor for a 1 7-day. 168-hour work week in defense plants. A $325,000,000 pay Increase averted Dec 7 railroad strike. BLACKOUI Jnittoui Lichif tn4 4-f 1 J' j.

1 4 1 i a VC CC tJ A A Plane, tanks, scout ears and motorcycles advance ever WAT VJr WAKrArvC Fort Knox. Ky hUls. to show that Uncle Sam had studied the Nasi panter onslsucbts those swlft-stabblnc attacks coordlnatinf planes and combat ears. In March Chief of Staff Marshall envtsaced 10 armored divisions; now there are five with more soon PI-IP A A I scores of elUes, Seattle had raid IXLIl LMl. J-U md blackout drUl (above) in little knowing that U.S.

would be threatened by Japanese attack and Axis warfare before 1M1 ended. Throughout the nation deWI to be formed. After war beran, draft law was chanced: overseas ban was lifted: service is now "for the duration" plus six months: Comress planned registration of men II to 14. widening of draft limit. fense plans were revised in terms of the expected 17 1 III I JiifyL J4- 1 i I i it If 4 s1 "Ii.

it tir.i.. KJOI Hisses greeted Bep. VJ Jeannette Rankin (E-l Mont) as she cast only "no" vot Dec 8 when congress by 410-11 declared war on Japan. She then1 waited In this phone booth until balls cleared. For Axis war decUi rations, she voted ril tnn Growing U.S.

alarm over enemies within Uti VjU AK.L our gates led to: sehture of some 30 Axis (vessels March 30, Including above Italian ships at Newark, N. M.I in Brnnktvn where 14 were convicted Dec 12: OUS-. Uer of German consuls by July 10; seizure of French ships, includ-1 fng mi normanoi (uea up n. a. since mw 1 1 PeT Chandler was a OIL.

IX shapely pair of hose head Aug. 1 as women mobbed stocking counters after U.S. ordtr reeling silk for. defense 'needs. F.D.B.

signed record (3,553,400,000 tax bill Sept 20,1 War costs soared into billions. CUIDC ADKA Lut-minute letter from FJ.R. Nov. On I rJ MiXVl clinched repeU of the neutrality act sections that forbade American cargo ships to arm or to enter war tones, and soon guns swung aboard merchantmen like this st Hoboken, N. J.

F.D.R. cited sinking of American flag vessels, wrote: "Failure to repeal would cause rejoicing in Axis nations." A HI I rYA Symbol of all the combat craft that slipped AUUI I lJr down ways in 1941 toward nation's two-ocean navy goal was the destroyer Emmons (above), launched at Bath, Aug. 23, commissioned Dec. 8. Yards strove for shipbuilding speed records, navy developed fast torpedo boats.

8.S. America became transport West Point. Sab 0-9 sank; S3 died. fes3)r' Ha 4- 1 1 .7. m.

i. i ijiiMiiiiHML i iiiiiri i i iiii ii i ii 1 I- pjiitteti; Ili Till 1 I awl JJLIT ttwJ i iflslMf- i- 't ljf i jitsmss iniiSJSnnwssnnmnwalntwa i v-v 1 AaMiBm, nmmalj PvD A CT of m11' UlxAr I lions In army or going to be under broader draft law is millionaire's son, Win-throp Rockefeller (above). Thousands of men hurried to enlist In army, navy or marine branches as war with Axis began. niU Mid-summer gas cur-DArl fews (above In N.T. Aug.

2), aluminum roundups, defense plant demands on electrical power, gave U.S. a foretaste of gasoline, metals, rubber curbs as war began. Defense needs even slenderized th clothespin. A I I CfD MOD "Quadrupled production" by industries supplying war materiel to iALL lUIv lYtWiXb u.S. and her alUes was stressed by F.D.S.

in his Dec 0 speech. (Aircraft factories such as Consolidated; Lockheed; Boeing; Douglas which produced above 82-ton bomber, the B-19; Curtlss-Wrlght; Martin which built navy's 70-ton bomber, the Mars (damaged In Dee. 5 tests), spent millions on new designs, expansion. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce's last an-, neunccd rate of production for training, transport, liaison, combat, planes: 20,0011 yearly' "ADSMIMA I I KJ TheU.S. navy, which In August proudly put the newly-AKVJLImA I nU HUE IX commissioned battleship North Carolina (above) through tests, firing some 20,000 pounds from 19 guns for record salvo, suffered a blow Dec 7 when Japan bombed Hawaii, sinking a battleship and other war craft Promptly Congress author-ilzed increase of 150,000 tons In navy's vessel strength but included no battleships in this tonnage.

Darling 1941 ther wert launched I battleships, at least 17 destroyers, I cruisers, 10 submarines, other craft.